La generación del 14

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

El tema de la representación de la naturaleza en la literatura costarricense ha sido de mucha relevancia y sigue vigente debido a la multitud de crisis -ambiental, económica, social y política- causada por la destrucción y depredación de la naturaleza bajo la retórica de la modernidad y la lógica de la colonialidad. En general, la mayoría de las obras literarias hispanoamericanas que tratan la naturaleza se inclinan -intencionadamente o no- hacia una postura arraigada en la colonialidad, revelando en particular la archiconocida dualidad de civilización y barbarie. Este libro pretende ...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Anadir uno mas a los multiples estudios sobre don Juan quiza parezca tarea innecesaria o vanidosa. A veces pienso que don Juan, junto a su lista de mujeres seducidas, pudiera presentar otra, mas larga si cabe, de criticos seducidos por sus andanzas. Mas no sobre don Juan solo. Pues las figuras que rondan en torno suyo, singularmente las mujeres y el Comendador, lo determinan de tal modo que sin ellas se volatizaria. Don Juan es un mito y, como tal, un objeto de fantasia o deseo, no ya del autor o del lector, sino de aquellos otros personajes que con el se rozan. Aparente protagonista, su...